Portrait of Auguste Renoir

Aristide Maillol

modeled probably 1906 or 1907, cast probably ca. 1907 · Bronze · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Maillol modeled the bust of Auguste Renoir while the painter worked in his summer studio at Essoyes in the Champagne region of France. He portrayed Renoir as an old man, wearing his favorite hat, an old one of white cloth, whose face records the ravages of the pain of incurable arthritis. The first edition in bronze was made in 1907 for the Paris art dealer Ambroise Vollard.

Artist

Aristide Maillol

Date

modeled probably 1906 or 1907, cast probably ca. 1907

Medium

Bronze

Culture

French

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Edith Perry Chapman Fund, 1951; acquired from The Museum of Modern Art, gift of Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, in memory of Cornelius J. Sullivan